Thanks Andrew,
I agree with you. So I just went and took the Reply-To header out
of my .muttrc. I believe that is the right thing to do, since it is the
same as my From address.
Phillip
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:46:26PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> I've had some thoughts about the
> because-of-reply-to-headers-I-get-two-copies-of-any-reply-to-my-own-posts-problem.
> It seems to me that mailman is behaving correctly because it uses the
> "From:" field to check if you're subscribed. A "Reply-To:" field isn't good
> enough. So if your "From:" field is correct (you can post to the list)
> there's no need to have a "Reply-To:" field _unless_ you want the reply to
> go somewhere else besides your "From:" address. In which case you will get
> two copies of the email just like you wanted, one at your "From:" address
> and one at your "Reply-To:" address.
>
> So the moral is, if "From:" and "Reply-To:" are the same address, you
> don't need "Reply-To:" and probably shouldn't use it as that's not what
> it's meant for.
>
> If you're mail server isn't configured correctly and you get
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as your "From:" address
> then either fix your mail server or put an entry in /etc/email-addresses
> like so:
>
> me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> There might even be a way to do that in your home directory instead of
> /etc. I'm not sure.
>
>
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